I'm sorry for not following up on whatever I said on another thread, I don't check the board as often and must have missed it, b/c while it is not a fan's obligation to like someone's music, it is their obligation to explain why.
The snippets way back when didn't really capture me, mainly b/c of his voice, it just seemed like he was one of those rappers that didn't have a tremendous natural voice for rapping and tried a little too hard on the mic. I enjoyed The Burn Ward snippet, that was a good cut.
Anyways, I obviously downloaded the album and am looking forward to the listen, I'll post my feedback along with everybody else. Hopefully I'll be surprised, there have been artists I didn't used to like but really took to eventually (Skuntdunanna comes to mind), so maybe this will happen here, maybe it won't. Anyways, time to go listen.